Israel killed 118 Palestinians in Gaza since Trump's call for halt in bombardment

The Israeli army has killed 118 Palestinians over the past four days in air and artillery strikes across besieged Gaza, defying a call by US President Donald Trump to halt the bombardments, the Gaza Government Media Office said.

Israeli forces "continue their aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, disregarding the ceasefire call announced by President Donald Trump and the positive response to his proposal," the office said in a statement on Tuesday.

It said that between dawn on Saturday, October 4 and the end of Tuesday, October 7, Israel carried out more than 230 air and artillery strikes targeting densely populated civilian and displacement areas across Gaza's governorates, committing "clear massacres."

Among the 118 civilians killed in the strikes were women and children, with 72 fatalities reported in Gaza City alone, according to the statement.

It held Israel fully responsible for the attacks and urged the US administration and the international community to "take serious, effective and urgent action to stop the aggression and to establish a real ceasefire."

Peace talks

Trump on Saturday urged Israel to halt its bombardment of Gaza immediately following a positive response from the Palestinian group Hamas to his 20-point ceasefire proposal.

On Sunday evening, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that weekend ceasefire talks had been "positive" and were "proceeding rapidly."

Israel and Hamas resumed indirect negotiations on Monday in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, mediated by Egypt and Qatar.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said earlier on Tuesday that the talks aim to create conditions for a hostage-prisoner exchange and the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza. He added that they also seek to agree on maps for Israeli force redeployments as a prelude to a withdrawal from the territory.

Israel has killed over 67,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in its carnage so far in Gaza.

It has reduced most of the blockaded enclave to ruins, and practically displaced all of its population.

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Source: TRT